-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 September 2001 09:10, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: <snip> > ...and that's what the cryptoapi patch tries to accomplish... > the loopback module has been separated from the crypto transfer > function... > > the CIPE project wants to make use of the cryptoapi as well; > > another subsystem; virtual memory encryption, can make use of the > cryptoapi as well... > - - encrypted swap, which would be really nice, esp. since it requires no key management (you just grab a random number from the kernel's entropy pool on each swapon) - - make drivers/char/random.c use the kerneli digest routines. > we really need to unify all those crypto related kernel space > projects; otherwise linus surely won't let them go into the kernel > (at least I expect this, judging from the past ;-) ACK. Marc - -- The Commission and Member States are urged to devise appropriate measures to promote, develop and manufacture European encryption technology and software and above all to support projects aimed at developing user-friendly open-source encryption software. -- EuroParl. Temp. Committee on the ECHELON Interception System http://www.europarl.eu.int/tempcom/echelon/pdf/prechelon_en.pdf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7l3V03oWD+L2/6DgRAqI4AJ0XiW0Y4sTgteWyjkpwnNFyJQpoyACg/Ne4 jbmYXrQnX/Y0fGuNsT4tEQE= =IioW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- iø!:õuA1:174:14:48:02 Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
